AB 125, a major agriculture bill, was introduced on December 18, 2020, as a placeholder, saying pretty much “more to follow.” Recently it’s got a lot of buzz, and there seemed to be a slew special interests plumping for their little bit of what would be a notable bond measure. Well, more is here. Yesterday, March 18, 2021, the placeholder was amended, and the bill has grown into a bond measure that adds a whole new division to the Public Resources Code.
Codes are bodies of state law on broad topics — Criminal Code, Civil Code, Business Code, Education Code, etc. I’d never heard of the Public Resources Code before, and I wonder why this bill is there rather than in the Food and Agriculture Code.
Each Code is subdivided into Divisions, they’re broken down into Parts and then Chapters and then Articles and so on. The point is, a Division is big. Way too big for me to be trying to read in the wee hours of the morning. Suffice it to say, we now have a $750 million $3.1 billion* bond act to parse. Are we having fun yet?
*I shouldn’t try to do this stuff in the middle of the night. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/climate-agriculture-targeted-in-3-billion-california-bond-bill
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Great work, Cindy! This is the kind of bond proposal we’ll need to study, discuss amongst our legislative committee, and then establish an educational campaign to raise awareness of the measure. But the only reason we even have a bill like this to consider is owed to the tireless work of environmental activists like yourself!
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